Re: [PATCH] libtool-native_2.4.2.bb: Always use /bin/sed for SED

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 2/12/13 3:39 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 13:36 -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
>> If you never use sstate and always build everything from scratch you
>> will never see this problem.  However, if you use sstate and build
>> directories that last a long time eventually you can end up with the
>> scenario where libtool gets a hard coded path in it for sed, and sed
>> may not exist.  The reason you don't see this problem to often if you
>> generally build from scratch is that libtool builds before sed and
>> will pickup the host's /bin/sed.
>>
>> The way to reproduce the issue is:
>>
>> bitbake some_image
>> bitbake -c cleansstate libtool-native
>> bitbake sed-native
>> bitbake libtool-native
>> bitbake -c clean sed-native
>> bitbake ANY_PACKAGE_THAT_USES_LIBTOOL_NATIVE
>>
>> In my case I used modphp, which doesn't exist in the oe-core. You will
>> end up with a strange looking error like:
>>
>> | make[1]: *** [buckets/apr_buckets_alloc.lo] Error 1
>> | /opt/build/bitbake_build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-libtool: line 981: /opt/build/bitbake_build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux//bin/sed: No such file or directory
>>
>> The solution is to always use /bin/sed for libtool-native.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   .../libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb                |    3 ++-
>>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb
>> index f12e6a1..18188ef 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb
>> @@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ require libtool-${PV}.inc
>>
>>   DEPENDS = ""
>>
>> -PR = "${INC_PR}.0"
>> +PR = "${INC_PR}.1"
>>   SRC_URI += "file://prefix.patch"
>>
>>   inherit native
>>
>>   EXTRA_OECONF = " --with-libtool-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}"
>> +CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_SED=/bin/sed"
>
> Do we have to set a path for it? Can't we rely on PATH being sane? I'm
> wondering if we should actually set this in the core site files.
> Hardcoding a path to utilities never usually ends well and this is just
> the tip of an iceberg.
>
> If we have to use a path, "${bindir}/env sed"?

We considered this.  The problem w/ using env to call sed is there is a small 
window where the sed-native is being constructed, that we can have a failure.

--Mark

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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